Hypervisible
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
> Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel as part of the probable cause justification to search his car for weed; he was arrested on possession charges.
404 Media@404media.co · 19m ago"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
Police using Flock to warrantless follow people across state lines is an act incompatible with our legal system--especially in a country where many things are legal in some states in criminalized in the other. First we saw it with abortion care, now we will see it with marijuana.
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
i love these posts because it imagines like none of us can remember a time before this tech. we all remember 2023! the only people who don't remember 2023 are literally six years old!
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 9h agoI have one answer.
“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028
First 13 departments will introduce AI in the Majors to students this fall
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New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
“Search ‘how much gold does a Flock camera have’ and Google’s AI Overview doesn’t even push back a little bit. Instead, it flatly asserts that a ‘Flock safety camera contains about 1 to 5 grams of gold used in its internal circuit boards and wiring.’”
Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
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Be cool if companies stopped trying to reinvent physiognomy every few years.
‘It confirmed my flaws’: women are paying for face scans that score beauty and suggest excessive procedures
‘Looksmaxxing’ culture has led to the rise of facial analysis services – but experts warn they aren’t backed by science and can be harmful to users
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"Yes, he continued, “there will be plenty of losers, but it is pointless seeking to prevent the inevitable … Many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers”. Note the intersection of the ‘inevitable' argument btwn tech, oil & govt. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Every time someone says that people need "training in AI" I struggle to understand how you train someone to use the "ask me anything, at anytime, for any reason" machine, or why you would need to.
Within the article is a quote from a Microsoft spokesperson saying the initiative is valuable for Microsoft ‘to learn from teachers’. This is familiar language to publishers who enter these deals. But name 1 initiative where a company has developed products that benefit professionals at its own cost
I will say Detroit is really a "two things can be true" kinda town and that's what excites me and infuriates me. you will hear from national (and not local) folks analyzing what happened here but a local can tell you that this is 50+ years of inter-racial relations a play here.
There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Teaching "about" is not the same as teaching "how to" - adults absolutely get the difference when it comes to sex ed but so many conflate the two approaches when it come to AI.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
supporting educators' otj safety as their union leader during a pandemic: never a moral imperative pushing educators to embrace tech that abhors education +is a tool to remove opportunities/resources from all humanity, as their union leader: moral imperative yay! 🤮🫠
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
You will be surprised to learn that I do not believe there is a “moral imperative“ to teach educators about AI.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Teachers need help with AI. A union is offering training – with $23m in funding from big tech
Partnership between American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest labor unions in the US, and AI firms has stirred controversy
theguardian.com
Seriously tho, in the Year Of Our Claude where literally everything is being hacked what do you think is going to be mote secure: sending a check, or typing in your full ass bank details and authorizing god knows what into a system built by Tata Consulting devs paid $8/hr
remember when Sheryl invited a bunch of feminist bloggers to dinner and they all wrote nice things about her airport book being the future of feminism
Sarah Szalavitz💡@dearsarah.bsky.social · 18h agoLean In To Fascism
Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · yesterday"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.
Can’t believe someone said yeah that’s a good and normal sentence I just wrote
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago“It is the Eye of Sauron, but it also knows when we enter our daughter’s room in the morning and joy hits her face — and it sends us intelligently edited montages of these moments.”
QUESTION: is there any footage of data centers IN Canada and their noise output that you know of that’s legit? please send me the info if you do!!
Most of my rage has been directed at TESCREALists and their wacky moral framework, but plain old amoral greed finds plenty of uses for this technology as well.
I HAVE BEEN SUBSIDIZING WALMART AND AMAZON STARVING THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
A company that would experiment on its own users like this, and obfuscated what it was doing, is not one that will abide by any "duty to act responsibly." @ntusikov.bsky.social and I lay out exactly why not in this Policy Options piece. policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/07/bill...
Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech
Bill C-34 puts too much faith in Big Tech. Canada should regulate the algorithms, data practices and business models that drive online harm.
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Jason Leopold@jasonleopold.bsky.social · 17h agoBOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Attention all academic burnouts who kept saying yes to things because they weren't until fall semester. It is now fall sester.
“Yes, sure, I’d love to run the risk of spending time alone with a creature that can’t wash its own ass but somehow still believes that it’s inherently intellectually and biologically totally superior to me, that sounds amazing” - increasingly few straight women in 2026, and good for them
Man, who is this Mephistopheles guy, and why is he sending me invoices that say Past Due?
Some people are really going to extremes to get your vote.
Congressional candidate arrested after Flock surveillance cameras shot at
A congressional candidate in Tennessee shot at four automated license plate readers there, say authorities there, and got four charges of felony vandalism in return. Adam Lee Heimerman, 37, of…
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